Volume 9: Cheshire and Lancashire

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Current Display: Bruera 2, Cheshire Forward button Back button
Overview
Present Location
The westernmost of two fragments built into the inside wall above the west door
Evidence for Discovery
See Bruera 1 above.
Church Dedication
St Mary
Present Condition
Good
Description

Below a broad flat border is an irregular, central-stemmed and occasionally unconnected, stripped scroll. In the upper right-hand corner is a possible foliate form.

Discussion

Though clearly having ornamental links to Bruera 1 and 3, the irregular stripped foliate forms are also paralleled locally at Prestbury and, at a greater distance, among the spiral-scroll material of Cumbria (Ills. 230–7; Bailey and Cramp 1988, 33–8).

Date
Late tenth or eleventh century
References
As Bruera 1 above
Endnotes

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